But since most Canadians don’t follow soccer on a regular basis, we’ve assembled an expert panel to help you get up to speed. We’ll discuss the top teams, bitter rivalries, dark horses and matches that you won’t want to miss when the event starts on June 12 in Brazil.

On our panel: Richard Starnes writes about soccer for the Ottawa Citizen and hosts a weekly radio show, Corner Kicks, George Johnson is a sports columnist for the Calgary Herald who will be in Brazil and has covered three previous World Cups, and Steve Brenneris a New York-based sports reporter who will be covering the World Cup and is the former soccer reporter for the Sun newspaper in the U.K. Be a part of our discussion, Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET.